Urine sample collection device

a collection device and urine technology, applied in the field of urine sample collection devices, can solve the problems of not easy or sanitary for anyone, difficult for many people to effectively hold a urine sample cup, and difficult for many people to give urine samples, etc., to achieve the effect of convenient and effective collection of urine samples, convenient use, and economical manufactur
US7011634B2Active Publication Date: 2006-03-14SAMPLE RITE
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US · United States
Patent Type
Patents(United States)
Current Assignee / Owner
SAMPLE RITE
Publication Date
2006-03-14

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Abstract

A urine collection device includes a support apparatus for supporting the urine collection device on a toilet. An attachment section attaches to a sample holder and a collection section receives and directs urine into the sample holder.
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[0001] This application claims the benefit of Provisional Application No. 60 / 462,986, filed Apr. 14, 2003.BACKGROUND

[0002] It is difficult for many people to hold a urine sample cup effectively to catch their own urine stream flow. It is even more difficult for the elderly, disabled, overweight, pregnant and very young to give urine samples. It is not easy or sanitary for anyone. Trying to catch a “mid-stream” flow multiplies the difficulties. A mid-stream flow refers to a urine sample that does not include the initial portion of a urine stream. In other words, a urine sample taken after the patent has already started urinating. Mid-stream urine samples can be important, since the initial portion of the urine stream may be contaminated.

[0003] When patients or sample-givers are faced with the indignity of someone else holding the urine sample cup for them, it sometimes becomes impossible for the patient to pass urine on demand. It is also time consuming, unsanitary and difficult for the...

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